COOKBOOKS--adult

***specifically baking***

Bread Alone: Bold Fresh Loaves from Your Own Hands--Leader, Blahnik
Customer Comment (rating=*****): This is more than a book of recipes - recipes are really not that difficult to find - it is also about the passion of life, which has, without ourselves noticing, quickly but quietly turned into an obsession for quick tempo,profiteering, without a genuine understanding and appreciation of inner qualities. His attention paid to finding the best oven, organic wheats and slow fermention methods all related to bringing back the kind of breads which does not just look good, but which are genuinely good for health.

Bread Machine Baking for Better Health : Delicious Bread Recipes for Brimming Good Health--Keane, Chace

The Bread Machine Cookbook IV: Whole Grains & Natural Sugars--German
Synopsis: This special bread machine cookbook is devoted to whole grains and natural sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup, and fruit concentrates. All of the breads are prepared without the use of refined flour or sugar and are also very low in fat and sodium.

The Bread Machine Gourmet--MacKenzie

Synopsis: Over 100 traditional, specialty, and exotic bread recipes presented--each kitchen-tested for bread machine performance and lip-smacking taste. Using only natural and wholesome ingredients, the author provides easy-to-follow instructions for extraordinary breads. The Bread Machine Gourmet also explains how to use your machine to prepare whips, dips, spreads, and glazes, as well as making doughs for oven-baking such traditional treats as rolls and pretzels.

The Breadman's Healthy Bread Book : Use Your Bread Machine to Make More Than 100 Delicious, Wholesome Breads--Burnett
Synopsis: There is nothing so delicious as a hot loaf of homemade bread. And millions of Americans have discovered that an electronic bread machine makes home baking as simple as making a cup of coffee. Now comes a book that shows how to bake and eat bread for good health.

The Complete Book of Bread Machine Baking--Murray

Easy Breadmaking for Special Diets : Wheat-Free, Milk- And Lactose- Free, Egg-Free, Gluten-Free, Yeast-Free, Sugar-Free, Low Fat, High Ot Low Fiber--Dumke

Gloria's Glorious Muffins--Ambrosia

Synopsis: This book raises the art of muffin-making to new heights. Here are mouth-watering gourmet delights that can be served for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack, and they are made with nothing but all natural ingredients! Nintey-nine new and outrageous muffin recipes that are easy to follow and quick to make. They’re high in fiber and low in fat and cholesterol, so not only do they taste great, but they’re good for you too!

Great Whole Grain Breads--Ojakangas
Synopsis: This complete guide to home-baked bread offers a wonderful selection of recipes, from basic whole wheat loves to rustic rye treats, from Southern-style corn breads to fruit and vegetable tea breads. Includes complete instructions, plus a list of mail-order sources for hard-to-find ingredients.

The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book : A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking --Robertson, et al

Recipes from the Old Mill : Baking With Whole Grains--Myers, Lind
Synopsis: Simple grains yield rich breads that range from the mystically light to the substantially chewy--breads that offer incontestable food value and flavor. This collection of more than 170 recipes for a multitude of breads, sweet rolls, international grain dishes, and desserts is intended to satisfy and delight those sensitive to nutritional concerns. Illustrations.

Secrets of Fat-Free Baking--Woodruff
Customer Comment (rating=****): A must for people who want to learn how to bake low fat. Both my wife and I found the recipes WORKED the first time without changes or problems! I was amazed at the different secrets she has for making baked goods lowfat, yet they were still flavorful. We are using her ideas to change our favorite recipes to lowfat. It's a great resource!

Smart Muffins, Cookies, Biscuits, and Breads : The Heavenly, Healthy Cookbook for High-Fiber, Low-Fat, No-Sugar Baked Goods--Kinderlehrer

Smart Muffins: 83 Recipes for Heavenly, Healthful Eating--Kinderlehrer
Synopsis: Muffins for kids and grown-ups, for snacks and meals. Including breakfast and brunchtime (Raisin Ginger Muffins, Ambrosia Muffins), parties (Mocha Kahlua Cheesecake Muffins), and dinnertime (Turkey Cranberry Almond Muffins).

Sweet & Natural Baking : Sugar-Free, Flavorful Desserts from Mani's Bakery--Niall
Synopsis: Carefully detailed instructions should guide you to perfect results for baked desserts, including cookies, muffins, scones, pies and cakes. There are useful descriptions of ingredients to help anyone unfamiliar with using whole grains and sweeteners such as concentrated fruit juice and maple syrup in baking.

Whole Grain Breads by Machine or Hand: 200 Delicious, Healthful, Simple Recipes--Ojakangas

Wholesome Cookies--Dieckmann

***specifically beans***

366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains (paperback)--Chesman
Synopsis: Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and flavorful "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organized by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and satisfying foods that stick to the ribs but not the waistline.

Country Beans (paperback)--Bingham
Customer Review (rating=*****): "This book is a great incentive to do more with beans than you ever thought possible. How to include them in everything from breakfast to main dishes to cookies and desserts. Also how to make tofu. A very inspiring book!"

Lean Bean Cuisine: Over 100 Tasty Meatless Recipes from Around the World--Solomon
Synopsis: The bulk of these recipes are vegan dishes with a Caribbean/Latin American flavor, but there are some Middle Eastern, Greek, Italian, and French dishes, and a few recipes from Africa, India, America, and Asia.

Romancing the Bean: Essentials for Creating Vegetarian Bean Dishes (paperback)--Saltzman
Synopsis: Here's a basic handbook beginners will relish, with instructions on everything from buying and storing beans to using pressure cookers and fryers to cook them. The vegetarian recipes go beyond listing methods and ingredients, probing how each dish was created and how it can be altered.

***specifically canning/preserving***

Putting It Up With Honey : A Natural Foods Canning and Preserving Cookbook--Geiskopf

***specifically cleansing***

The Cleanse Cookbook--Dreher
Synopsis: "The Cleanse Cookbook" is a one-of-a-kind cleanse resource guide. It provides delicious and healthy (alkaline pH) cleanse recipes that actually encourage the body to detoxify and clean out, helping to balance the body's pH level. Most people are very toxic, due in part to eating too many processed, acid-forming foods that create congestion and toxicity in the body. This results in an imbalanced pH level and disease. By restoring the body's pH balance, the body can respond naturally and begin the cleansing and healing process, creating health and harmony instead of toxicity and disease.

***specifically desserts***

Baking Without Fat: More Than 100 Delicious, Easy, High-Energy Recipes for Healthy Dessert Eating--Mateljan
Synopsis: Baking Without Fat contains more than 100 recipes for baking delicious desserts that are fat-free, high-energy, and rich in beneficial antioxidant vitamins. Also included are 29 wheat-free and 48 dairy-free recipes.

Classic American Natural Desserts Cookbook--Smither

Synopsis: Desserts made healthy! This book brings you allergen-free, low-fat, high fiber goodies that taste great--without refined sugar, overly processed flours, preservatives, or dyes. Old family favorites can now be easily converted into new, nutritious treats. Cakes, cookies, pastries, mousses, and holiday punches are among over 100 easy-to-follow recipes. Dairy-free alternative ingredients are offered those with lactose intolerance.

Naturally Sweet Desserts : The Sugar-Free Dessert Cookbook--Weber
Synopsis: Sticky, gooey, sweet desserts are indulgent, unhealthy, and loaded with calories--right? Wrong. Not if you serve the pastries, cakes, pies, shakes, and other goodies included in this creative cookbook. None of the recipes uses refined sugar or processed foods, and few require dairy products.

Smart Cookies: 80 Recipes for Heavenly Snacking--Kinderlehrer
Synopsis: Healthful snacks don't have to be boring. Smart Cookies features easy-to-make treats such as Chewy Apricot-Granola Bars, Peanut-Raisin-Carob Chews, and Almond Kahlua Squares, for everyone's nutritional needs. Plus a special chapter for those allergic to milk, corn, wheat, eggs, or chocolate.

Wholesome Cookies--Dieckmann

***specifically diabetes***

The Art of Cooking for the Diabetic--Hess

The New Diabetic Cookbook: More Than 200 Delicious Recipes for a Low-Fat, Low-Sugar, Low-Cholesterol, Low-Salt, High-Fiber Diet--Cavaiani
Synopsis: This newly revised, updated fourth edition of a classic packs in over 200 recipes low in salt, sugar and fat, following the latest guidelines of the American Diabetes Association and including plenty of information on nutrition. This is not sugar-free cooking: many dessert dishes call for real sugar rather than substitutes. But it does outline the basic principles of diabetic exchange cooking.